Bowlby's theory of attachment
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- Created on: 15-11-12 12:29
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- Bowlby's theory of Attachment
- Survival
- The drive behind attachment - the fact that everyone needs an attachment in order to survive.
- Innate Tendency
- Present at birth rather than being aquired through learning or experience
- Long Term Benefits
- Internal Working Model
- Ongoing influence on social development
- Reciprocal
- This means give and take.
- Infants are attached tp adults - two way relationship
- Natural Selection
- Heritable traits that make it more likely for someone to survive and therefore reproduce.
- A key mechanism in evolution
- Social Releasers
- Any behaviour that provokes a caregiver reaction
- Crying
- Smiling
- Critical Period
- 0 - 2.5
- The time that Bowlby thinks the attachment should be formed.
- Monotropy
- A bias towards one primary caregiver.
- According to Bowlby this is usually the mother.
- Survival
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